If you’re wanting like my friend was, you’ll keep asking for extensions and missing deadlines until you’re assigned an auditor, at which point you’ll finally submit paperwork covering your two tax documents, and then complain that the IRS is being unreasonable.

Now, she just does things on time.

Honestly really surprised to find everyone here all do their taxes so quickly. I also did all of mine as early as I could (mid-Feb) but…

The only few American friends whom I’m close enough to talk about this, they all ignore it until the very last minute. So either late March/April, or not at all

For me, it depends on when all of our paperwork is in.

Generally, the W-2s from the employers don’t come in until the end of January, then I have to wait on my stock account. My wife had unemployment last year, and dividends from an oil field.

All of that has to be in before we can file.

Technically we were ready mid-February but got laid out by hospitalizations. I think we filed mid-March?

We did ours as soon as we had the documents, around mid Feb. Despite how incredibly awful everything is lately, there’s still child tax credits and daycare credits from smarter times. No reason to procrastinate that, especially as we can invest it in a long term fund for the kids.

Did mine early March and I’m still waiting for the Feds to give me my money. Where’s my money?!

Mine are simple, I do them as soon as I get a W2. Partner does then midnight day before due.

I’m still fighting my old company for tax documents that are due in 4 days, and I don’t even live in the US

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I’m Canadian (so North American) and I do them first week of April now. When all I had was a minimum wage retail job it was easy enough to get my one or two forms and file really early, but now I have to wait for companies to get me the forms and some of them send them out as late as April 1st.

You can’t do them in January let alone New Year’s Day as most tax forms have until the end of January to be sent to taxpayers.

When I did them myself I would get them done by March at the latest. Now that I have a financial advisor that also does my taxes, I get the documents to them ASAP (assuming ADHD isn’t getting in my way), and they tend to have them filed around the time I would’ve gotten them filed. Also nice to see that I didy taxes pretty accurately as how much I owed/was owed were effectively the se amount. Really wish the tax system was simplified for at least regular W2 employees where the taxes are basically all boilerplate with some numbers filled in.

For my family, normally early March after all the paperwork has been received and I find time to sit and look at boring shit.

This year, I started around then and saw that we owed federal a bunch and I stopped as that fragile motivation was now gone and I wasn’t in a hurry to send trumpy money for ballrooms, legal defense, bombs, ice, etc.

Finally went back to it last night and finished up tonight. I’m getting roughly the same amount back from my state.

The paperwork is supposed to be available by the end of January, so not usually before then.

So yeah, I stated a couple hours ago and spent most of that time fighting secure logins for online services I use once a year

I usually do February or March.